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Call out a verb from Exercise 7 on CoderDojo COOLEST PROJECTS INTERNATIONAL
page 58, and elicit the whole phrase.
For example, you say to admit, very year, kids from CoderDojo is run by volunteers and it can be set up anywhere.
all over the world
students say (to make) an admission. Ecome to the RDS in There is no set curriculum at the clubs. Children from seven
to 17 work on what interests them and they learn far more
They get two points for the whole Dublin to demonstrate the than just coding skills. They also develop problem-solving
phrase and just one if they can only apps, websites, games and skills, and learn how to manage a project, work in a team
hardware projects they have
and design something they feel passionate about.
remember the noun. Once you’ve developed in their local Dojo. And what’s really amazing is that many of the kids’
demonstrated this with one or two At the first event in 2012, inventions have had a significant social impact. Here are
there were 19 projects and 100 attendees, but in
two examples from the event in Dublin:
examples, pairs take turns to test 2018, 10,000 people attended the event, from 114 The Best International Prize was won by a Romanian
countries, and 1,000 kids showcased their projects.
each other in the same way. Back in 2011, James Whelton, the founder of team, for their project AZ-Tech Teddy. Their e-health
project aims to help prevent childhood obesity. Tech
CoderDojo, set up the first coding club at his school Teddy is a teddy bear for a child to feed and take care
in Cork, in Ireland. He had only just turned 18. of. Children who play with the teddy bear need to track
After that, James became well known and was its eating habits carefully. The young coders believe this
1 Ask students to cover the article invited to speak at the Dublin Web Summit. will teach young children about healthy eating habits.
and just look at the pictures and He spoke about how he had hacked his iPod Freddie from Wales won the Openet Innovator Prize
Nano to turn it into a watch. James had won the
for his facial recognition door entry system which
answer the questions. Write their iPod Nano at an awards ceremony, and, bored he designed for elderly people with dementia. ‘Safe’
ideas on the board, but do not on the plane on the way home, he had started people can register their face so that when they
to play around with it and accidentally hacked it.
come to the door they will be recognised. The system
give the answers at this stage. Then, before he went to bed that night, he wrote will then tell the homeowner who is at the door and
about it on his blog. When he woke up, he saw that whether to let them in or not.
a quarter of a million people had viewed the blog.
2 6.05 Before playing the audio, After that, all his schoolmates wanted to know how
set a two-minute time limit to he had done it and asked if he would teach them
to code, too. He agreed to set up a coding club at
encourage students to read his school and he started to teach basic HTML and
CSS to his fellow students. Later that year, he met
quickly and focus on checking Bill Liao, an entrepreneur who saw what a great
ideas rather than on trying to idea this club was. Bill wanted to expand the
project to other cities and to other countries, too,
understand every word. and the pair set up CoderDojo.
Suggested answers: 1 through a
coding club / through a CoderDojo
event – James Whelton set up a REAdING
SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the photos and
coding club for children in Ireland and 1 answer the questions.
SPEAKING
the girl is probably attending an event. 1 How do you think the people know each other?
2 at a coding club / at a CoderDojo 2 Where do you think they are?
event / at a school / at the RDS in 2 6.05 Read and listen to the article to check your ideas. 4 SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss
SPEAKING
Dublin, Ireland the questions.
3 Read the article again and mark the sentences T (true), F (false) 1 Is there a CoderDojo in your town
or DS (doesn’t say). Then correct the false sentences. or in your country?
3 Tell students to underline key 1 Coolest Projects International is a great opportunity to meet 2 Do you think they are a good idea?
information in the article that children from all over the world. Why (not)?
helped them to decide whether 2 Over the years, fewer people have attended Coolest Projects 3 Are there any similar clubs in
International.
your area?
each sentence is true or false. 3 James Whelton was brilliant at Maths at school. 4 What kind of community club
During feedback, ask students to 4 James Whelton became famous after he hacked his iPod Nano. would you set up in your area?
justify their answers by quoting 5 Bill worked with James’s father and agreed to help James.
6 Teachers are paid a lot of money to run CoderDojo clubs.
the text they have underlined. 7 Children are free to invent and design whatever they like.
1 T 2 F (At the first event in 2012, 8 The Romanian students’ project aimed to teach children to
eat more healthily.
there were 100 attendees, but in 60
2018, 10,000 people attended.)
3 DS 4 T 5 DS 6 F (CoderDojo
is run by volunteers.) 7 T 8 T The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) was founded in 1731 as the ‘Dublin Society’
and is an Irish philanthropic organisation created to promote the cultural and
4 Encourage students to speak economic flourishing of Ireland.
at length and to try to use
vocabulary from the article in Web Summit is the largest technology conference in the world. Originally held
their answers. in Dublin and now annually in Lisbon, Portugal, it gathers founders and CEOs of
technology companies, fast-growing start-ups, policy makers and heads of state
to discuss where technology is heading next.
Culture notes The iPod Nano is a now-discontinued portable media player designed in 2005 by
CoderDojo is a volunteer-based global Apple Inc.
community for free programming HTML and CSS are coding languages. All websites are, in part, built using these
workshops for young people between languages.
7 and 17 years old. There are an Bill Liao is an Australian entrepreneur and philanthropist, engaged in not-for-
estimated 1,250 CoderDojos spread profit work. He is the founder of WeForest.org. The Financial Times records him
across almost 70 countries. as one of the world’s top 100 minority ethnic leaders in technology.
The Openet Innovator Prize is one of several prizes awarded at Coolest Projects
more International – a world-leading showcase for young digital creators, innovators
and entrepreneurs.
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